Dr. Fauci says there are no ‘warning signs’ so far for pregnant women who receive COVID vaccines after more than 10,000 future vaccines.
Pregnant women were not included in vaccine tests conducted by Moderna and Pfizer – but that made health officials and women anxious to find out the results as soon as they were available.
Food and Drug Administration officials have given emergency clearance for the injection of Moderna for use in adults 18 and over. Pfizer shooting is authorized for anyone aged 16 and over.
‘The FDA, as part of the typical follow-up you have after the initial issue of any [emergency use authorization] they have found out so far, and we have to be careful, but so far, no red light on that, about pregnant women, ‘said Dr. Fauci during an interview on Wednesday with JAMA.
‘Interestingly, many of the pregnant women were health professionals who were exposed [to coronavirus on a daily basis] and said, “I prefer to take [my] chances with the vaccine instead of being infected with SARS-CoV-2 because of adverse effects and results [of coronavirus] about pregnancy, ”he added.
Pregnant women were 3.5 times more likely to be hospitalized and 13.6 times more likely to die than non-pregnant residents of Washington State who were between 20 and 30 years old (above)
Dr. Fauci noted that there are higher rates of “adverse outcomes” for pregnant women with COVID-19 and their newborns, which motivated pregnant healthcare professionals to get vaccinated
More than 10,00 pregnant women in the United States have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and, so far, there are no ‘warning signs’, said Dr. Fauci
But the lack of testing has left many doubts for women who are pregnant or want to become pregnant, but also want to protect themselves from COVID-19.
Food and Drug Administration officials have given emergency clearance for the injection of Moderna for use in adults 18 and over. Pfizer shooting is authorized for anyone aged 16 and over.
Vaccine manufacturers are still collecting data on the effects of vaccines on pregnant women.
U.S. health officials and experts said it would be up to women to get the vaccine and that doctors should not discourage them from getting vaccinated – especially since there is evidence that COVID-19 may pose greater risks for pregnant women than others, and it can increase the chances of premature birth.
Both Pfizer and Moderna kept pregnant women out of their initial tests, but women still got pregnant during testing.
This gave companies some inadvertent insights into the safety of vaccines for pregnant women.
Both the CDC and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend that women be informed about the risks of coronavirus vaccines, but not discouraged from taking them.
Therefore, it was up to pregnant women who became eligible in the first phase of the vaccine’s launch to make their own decision about whether to get it.
Women who test positive for COVID-19 are seven percent more at risk of having a cesarean delivery, which increases the risk of babies with breathing problems or heavy bleeding or infections.
They also face six times the risk of needing treatment in the ICU and 3.5 times the risk of developing a life-threatening blood clot.
Pregnant women infected with coronavirus are 19 percent more likely to go into labor earlier and 23 percent more at risk of stillbirth.
Women were most commonly infected during the third trimester of their pregnancy
And pregnant women are 13 times more likely to die from COVID-19 if they contract the virus, compared to other women or men, according to a recent study by Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The researchers also found that pregnant women infected with the virus were 3.5 times more likely to be hospitalized with complications.
Furthermore, expectant mothers were almost 14 times more likely to die than Americans in the 20 to 30 year old population.
The discovery comes a day after the World Health Organization recommends that pregnant women not receive the Modern COVID-19 vaccine, just three weeks after the launch of a similar warning for the Pfizer vaccine, due to a lack of safety data.
But the team at the University of Washington in Seattle told DailyMail.com that their study shows exactly why pregnant women should get the injection and why they shouldn’t be excluded from vaccine trials and recommendations.
More than half of COVID-19 cases – 56.3 percent – were detected in the third quarter.
The researchers compared the hospitalization and mortality rates in pregnancy with those of adults aged similar, between 20 and 39 years, in the state of Washington.
The results showed that 24 pregnant women, or 10 percent, were hospitalized specifically for symptoms of coronavirus.
This is about 3.5 times higher than the COVID-19 hospitalization rate for adults of similar ages, which was 2.8 percent.
In addition, a third of hospitalized patients were admitted to the ICU.
In addition, there were three deaths among pregnant patients for a maternal mortality rate of 1,250 per 100,000 pregnancies, or 1.2 percent,
This rate is 13.6 times higher than the 91.7 deaths in 100,000 patients, or 0.09 percent, for non-pregnant women aged 20 to 39 years.
‘We were shocked that we had so many women who died of COVID-19 because maternal deaths are really very rare in the state, ‘senior author Dr. Kristina Adams Waldorf, an obstetrician and gynecologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, told DailyMail. with.
“We only have a handful of a year and these are three that happened in just a few months … and despite all the best care that there is to offer.”